BayView Financial Trading Group plans to move its national headquarters and about 350 employees from Miami to Coral Gables in January, filling more than half the Village of Merrick Park’s new office building.

The firm plans to vacate its offices on South Bay Shore Drive in Coconut Grove in favor of the top two floors at the Village of Merrick Park site, said Marie Fernandez-Leon, BayView spokeswoman.

Though lease terms weren’t disclosed, Ms. Fernandez-Leon said the company will occupy the building’s entire fourth and fifth floors, or just more than half its 102,000 square feet of office space at 4425 Ponce de Leon Blvd.

BayView and other office tenants are eying potential client spillover from Merrick Park’s adjacent high-end shopping complex, according to the Maryland-based Rouse Co., developer and owner of the mixed-use village.

"The relationship is that office tenants have a similar client base to the retail tenants, said Bob Byrne, a Rouse vice president in Maryland.

"A financial services firm, for example, that wants to service wealthy people will end up targeting the same groups shopping at the stores," he said referring to Nordstrom’s, Neiman Marcus and other luxury outlets.